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MYTH: Families are better off financially when fathers are the primary breadwinner, as opposed to mothers.In nuclear families headed by a heterosexual couple, when the mother, not the father, is the primary breadwinner, the total family income is higher. A Pew Research study revealed that in 2011, the average family income was about $80,000 for families in which the woman was the primary breadwinner, as opposed to families in which the man was the primary breadwinner, in which the average income was $78,000. Families with spouses that make approximately the same income had an even lower median income—about $70,000.The amount of breadwinner mothers have grown in the past fifty years; mothers who make more than their spouses made up four percent of the population in 1960, and grew to...